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Course name
Astro482 Spring 2018
Institution
University of Washington
Instructor
Paula Szkody
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Scientific Writing
Course dates
2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-05-30 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
6


This course involves students learning how to write their resumes, scientific articles for the public and papers for a scientific journal. They will review published material as well as work of fellow students. Wikipedia will be a week long exercise in copyediting for wikipedia versus peer review in scientific journals.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Karalynostler Zwicky Transient Facility
Cocrod
Agomezbuckley Thorne–Żytkow object
Courtk32 Manastash Ridge Observatory
Jeff.Anheier
Minos27

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 26 March 2018   |   Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Assignment - Learn about Wikipedia

Get a wikipedia account and look over the training modules for wikipedia.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 2 April 2018   |   Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Assignment - Find an article to copyedit

Find an article related to your research topic that you can copyedit and start making your changes.

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 9 April 2018   |   Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Assignment - Finish changes to your article

Make your final copyedit changes to your article.